Word: opus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...died insane but his Daily Mail was hitting at the 2,000,000 mark, so he was called a great man. He had the kind of brains often prized as first-class because it produces numerically big results. Though one of his technical peers (Lord Salisbury) called his magnum opus "a journal produced by office boys for office boys," Panegyrist Hamilton Fyfe dares repeat the slur, trusting in his faith that the big battalions are on the side...
Harmonic drama in all of its trappings will be furnished in the playing of Wagner's prelude to "The Master-singers of Nuremberg". In this opus a march theme is ingeniously woven into the theme which suggests the love of Walther and Eva. The score holds many surprises and, in all, is intensely stimulating...
...Stoehr device, striker bars are so fixed to a piano's keys that when a key is touched a code impression is recorded on a motor-driven music-roll. Thus the most idle vagaries, nuclei for many a major opus, may be preserved. Added feature is a portable keyboard superimposed on the piano keyboard (baby grand or upright) which mechanically and instantaneously transposes music into any desired key. Composing and transposing devices may be used together. A great boon should "Music Writer" be to the cinema industry. Heretofore composition for synchronized cinema has been a labor of weeks. With...
...Enterprise was credited with successful prosecution of nine major projects, and persistent and effective efforts in behalf of a score of other causes. But its magnum opus was the fencing off of Pike County, Miss, from Louisiana...
Norma Shearer in her latest opus now playing at the University adds another quite substantial rung to her ladder of success. Her acting and other natural endowments add considerable to a plot that is slightly drab to speak mildly. What is more, she is one of the few women who is able to wear a hat as if it were an ornament rather than a necessary excrescence, and the remainder of her attire is correspondingly satisfactory. The major point is, however, that she plays her part as if she were an actress and not a model...